Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 370
The Greek architect, in designing, ahvays sacrificed the apparentgrâce of his geometrical studies to what he foresaw would be theirperspective efFect when executed. He knew that the angles of hisédifices, always seen obhquely and from accidentai points of vicAv.were the parts which required the… … THE CAEYATIDES OF THE PAXDROSEUM. 301 tlie outliiie and gênerai exterior character of lus composition, Thus,a geometrical élévation of tlie little Pandrosenm, annexed to theErectheiiin at Athens (Fig. 57), présents an enornious entablaturewhicli seems to crnsli tlie supporting caryatides, and tlie…
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